Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Mood in Lagos turns from defiance to despondency as police-brutality protests met with violent crackdown

South Africa Nigeria Police Protest

Thousands of protesters have been demonstrating across Nigerian cities, calling for an end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, a police unit set up in the 1980s to tackle criminality. It has become feared and loathed by Nigerians, accused of kidnapping, torture and killing.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nigeria-protests-violence-police-1.5771330?cmp=rss

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